Ellie's Treasures Paint Shop Pro Tuts Emerald Isle Stationery

Stationery Header with matching background, but you can also make just the framed part for a tag or framed graphic.

For this tutorial you will need:
Jasc Paint Shop Pro - available for purchase and trial version here

Filters and materials needed
A tube, psd file, or graphic
Simple filters - Quick Tile and Diamonds - available free here
Funhouse filters - Reverb - available free here - also included are old Funhouse filters you can't get any more
Fantastic Machines Paint Engine - available free here
Quilted Tile from this tutorial (pick colors for your stationery first)
The gold gradient pattern I used, right click and save this one

My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins -
available for purchase here.
I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located.

Let's Get Started!

FRAMED IMAGE

1. Open a tube or graphic, fairly square, duplicate, close original, reduce duplicate in size to about 375 at tallest point.
Pick 2 complementary shades from it, one pale and one darker of the same color.
I chose #c7e7c3, a pale green, and #397131 for the dark shade.
Open gold gradient tile and minimize. Create new transparent canvas 400X400, copy tube and paste as new layer in the canvas.

2. Create new raster layer, pull to bottom in layer palette and flood fill with the pale color you chose.

3 Making sure you are on the tube layer, apply Drop Shadow, setting: v&h 2; opacity 100; blur 4; color black;
then repeat with -2 for v&h. Merge all.

4. Make the Quilted Tile from this tutorial (it will open in a new window, it's a very quick and easy tutorial). Minimize.

5. Select a small piece that will look nice tiled, and copy, paste as new image, go to Effects>Simple>Quick Tile, minimize.

6. Change foreground color to pattern picked from tube, angle 0, scale 100.

7. Add border, 10, color other than what's in picture, select with Magic Wand, then flood fill with pattern. Leave selected.
Effects>3D Effects>Inner bevel: bevel 2, width, 10, smoothness 40, depth 2, ambience 0, shininess 0,
angle 315, intensity 50, elevation 30, color white. Do not deselect.

8. Selection>Invert; Effects>3D Effects>Cutout, v&h2, op 100, blur 20, color black. Repeat with v&h set at -2, select, none

10. Add border, 10 pixels, select with Magic Wand, flood fill with color you filled canvas with, Inner Bevel as before. Deselect.

11 Change foreground pattern to your quilted tile pattern. Add border 10, select with Magic Wand,
flood fill with the pattern, angle 0, scale 25.
Inner Bevel as before, then Cutout v&h 2, op 65, blur 2.5, black; repeat w v&h -2.
Inner Bevel Cutout

12 Change foreground pattern to the gold gradient you have open, angle 1, scale 100.
Add border 5, select with Magic Wand, flood fill with gold gradient, Inner Bevel as before.
Then Effects>3D Effects>Outer Bevel, bevel 2, 5-40-2-0-0-315-50-30, color white. Deselect.
Reduce size to about 350-400 at it's tallest, add watermark, done with this part. A good time to save.

Inner Bevel Outer Bevel Finished this part!

HEADER

13 Open new canvas 1024 X height of your frame minus 50. Flood fill with the pale color you picked, merge all.

14 Now add borders as with the frame.
Border one: Add border, 10, Pattern fill, angle 0, scale 100; Inner Bevel: bevel 2, 10-40-2-0-0-315-50-30,
Selection>Invert; then Cutout 2-2-65-2.5, then repeat cutout with -2 for v&h, deselect.
Border 2: add border 10, fill w pale color, Inner Bevel as above, deselect.
Border 3: add border 10, fill with quilt tile pattern, angle 0, scale 100, Inner Bevel as above;
then Cutout at 2-2-65-2.5, repeat w v&h at -2, deselect.
Border 4: add border 5, fill w gold gradient, angle 0, scale 100, Inner Bevel as above,
then Cutout 2-2-65-1, repeat w v&h at -2, finished.
Now resize, all layers, make the width 1024 again. Sharpen if needed. Deselect. Save.

15. Now copy framed image and paste as new layer onto header. Resize this layer as necessary.
You can either make it line up at top and bottom, or make it a bit smaller. See examples.
The second one, I resized to 93%, resize all layers unchecked.
When I resized, sharpening didn't look right but I wanted more clarity so I went to
Adjust>Automatic Contrast Enhancement, and set it at Neutral, Mild, and Bold, see screenshot below.
These samples are smaller than your result, I resized them as samples for this page.
You're done! Watermark and save as a jpg.

Adjust>Automatic Contrast Enhancement window

BACKGROUND

Create new canvas 200X200, flood fill with either of the colors you chose at the beginning.
Go to Effects>Fantastic Machines>Paint Engine, and apply the Cracks preset.
In case you don't have the preset, see screenshot for the settings.
Make sure the wrap edges box is checked to make the tile seamless.

ASSEMBLE IN LETTER CREATOR

1 Make sure Show Sample Text is checked at the bottom of the window.
   Click on the header tab, insert the header you made; click on Center.
2 Click on the Body tab, click on Image, and browse to the tile you made. Now click on "Tile" to tile the image.
3 Choose a font and font size. I recommend not going below 18 for most fonts as they end up too small to read.
4 Choose a text color and link color. Please be very careful that you don't pick a
   shade or color too close to the background or it will be hard to read. Pick a signature color as well.
5 Set the margins: set the top margin to 10, but don't change the left or right margin
   (in this case, not true in most cases but header is large).
6 Click on the Footer tab, in the footer, it's good to put the name of your font, credit the artist or tube maker
   if you know that information and link to them if they have a website (to link, just select the text, click on the
   link icon that's just above the footer edit window, it's the one on the right.
   When the little window opens, put the address in there).
   Highlight what you typed and click on Center, then pick the font you used for the body of the stationery.
   You don't need to change the color, the program does that automatically for you to match the text and link colors
   you chose for the stationery (to see that, scroll down in the sample text to the footer and you will see that it's changed).
7 Click on the 3D Effects tab, and pick an animation you like for all of the categories there.
8 Click on the Finish tab and name your stationery in Letter Name.
   I add my initials to it so it's unique and won't get overwritten.
   In Collection Name, pick a folder that you would like the stationery to install to.
   I name mine Ellie's Treasures Christmas, Ellie's Treasures Floral, etc. For Type, pick Letter.
   In the Text box, I have the copyright symbol and my company name.
   For the copyright symbol, hold down the alt key
   while on the number pad you type in 0169, let go of the alt key and the copyright symbol will be there.
   In the little window below that, you can choose Email in the dropdown menu and add your email address
   to the window next to it, or you can leave it at URL and put your website address in there.
   Click on Save Project and then click on Add to Incredimail. You're done!

If you have any questions or suggestions, click on the email button below to contact me. Have a wonderful day!

Some other samples - these samples are smaller than your result, I resized them as samples for this page.

For this one, I resized the framed graphic to 93%, resize all layers unchecked.

The art in this beautiful picture is by Tammy J aka LadyBlue

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Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
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